(UN News Centre) – An estimated 152 million children around the world work, a practice that the international community at a United Nations co-organized conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is trying to eliminate. “Of those, almost half are in hazardous work. We need to recognize that progress has been very uneven,” said International Labour Organization (ILO) […]
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(Al Jazeera) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels have accused the Saudi-led coalition of bombing the country’s main international airport, destroying a navigation station that is critical to receiving already limited aid shipments. Houthi officials told Al Jazeera two air strikes targeted Sanaa’s international airport in the rebel-held capital early on Tuesday, making it unusable for aid flights […]
(The Intercept) – Children and Teenagers are frequent victims of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. They face physical abuse by Israeli military forces and are shuffled through an unfair court system without access to legal counsel or even their parents. Link
(HRW) – Human Rights Watch writes in advance of the 79th pre-sessional working group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Japan’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This submission focuses on children in alternative care; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and sex […]
(Times Colonist) – Vancouver is poised to become a symbol for protecting children and preventing the use of child soldiers when a series of commitments bearing the city’s name is rolled out at this week’s peacekeeping summit. The international community has been quietly working on the so-called Vancouver Principles for some time, which a senior […]
(Care) – Lami Mahamadou is a 35 years old mother of 6. She is a refugee from Baga, Nigeria. She had everything in life. Her husband, Issa Adamu, was a fisherman who made sure she never missed anything in life. She was living life to the fullest. Link
(AFP) – Desperately needed humanitarian assistance entered a besieged rebel-held town near Syria ‘s capital on Sunday, the Red Cross said, in the first aid deliveries there in nearly three months. The International Committee of the Red Cross said a joint operation with the United Nations had brought in 24 trucks full of humanitarian relief to […]
(Middle East Eye) – Dozens of Syrian civilians have been killed after an air strike, believed to be Russian, hit a popular market in the Aleppo countryside, activists reported on Monday afternoon. Abdulkafi Alhamdo, who had just been at the market with his daughter, returned to the scene after the aerial attack, in the town of Atarib. […]
(UNICEF) – Unsafe or damaged schools, absent teachers and dangerous journeys to class are among the destructive ways that conflict is impacting the learning prospects of young Africans according to a new UNICEF survey carried out in four countries. Based on polling among 128,000 young people* in Central African Republic (CAR), Uganda, Chad and Nigeria, the survey […]
(CNN) – Discarded and left for dead, Mumtaz says she found herself on top of a mound of charred, entangled bodies. “They killed and killed and piled the bodies up high. It was like cut bamboo,” says Mumtaz, a Rohingya woman from the village of Tula Toli in western Myanmar. Link
